Mustache and goatee styles

"Right now, this week, everyone wants to kill me," he says, with a shrug that's almost believable. "But the weeks before that everyone loved me. And they're both equally annoying. Like, imagine you took a Sharpie," he laughs out the word Sharpie, "and you colored your nose black. Completely black. The whole thing. And you'd get on the train and people would go: 'What's with that guy?' 'Why is his nose black?'" He pretends to gasp, dressed in the style he has become known for, aptly described in a recent New York Times profile as his "heavy-drinking, angry-nerd aesthetic." His beard is thick, with a mustache promontory, the regal goatee of a Scottish Terrier, and his boxer's frame juts out...

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Ah, the goatee —the easiest facial hair style to screw up. If you do a beard wrong, it can make you look creepy. If you do your hair wrong, you can look totally unkempt. But a goatee can be much, much worse. If you choose the wrong goatee style, you can end up looking like a suburban soccer dad. You know the guy I’m talking about: the goatee-clad dad with an oversized t-shirt tucked into his shorts, knee-high white socks sprouting out of an overused pair of New Balance sneakers, and his cell phone clipped on the outside of his belt. A bad goatee can make you look like that guy. We don’t want that. Really, there was a time when I thought goatees just always looked bad. But after seen a few...

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